A Global History of Anti-Slavery Politics in the Nineteenth Century

The abolition of slavery across large parts of the world was one of the most significant transformations in the nineteenth century, shaping economies, societies, and political institutions. This book shows how the international context was essential in shaping the abolition of slavery.

"Over the past twenty years, there has been a movement among slavery scholars to expand their frameworks, stressing ever broader transnational comparisons and connections. This volume edited by William Mulligan and Maurice Bric continues to push the envelope. Their eclectic and thought provoking collection explores the international dimensions of the nineteenth-century antislavery movement and its legacy eleven essays from specialists based around the world that touch on places as far flung as Russia, the Congo, Sierra Leone, Haiti, the United States, the Ottoman Empire, Britain, Germany, Spain, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and France." - Justin Roberts, Dalhousie University, Canada

Autorentext
Megan Dean Farah, Stanford University, USA Julia Gaffield, Duke University, USA Charlie Laderman, University of Cambridge, UK Simon Morgan, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK Andrea Nicholson, Nottingham Trent University, UK Maeve Ryan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Tufts University, USA Ehud R. Toledano, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Françoise Vergès, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK

Inhalt
Introduction; William Mulligan 1. 'Liberté, Indépendance': Haitian Antislavery and National Independence; Julia Gaffield 2. 'A most promising field for future usefulness': The Church Missionary Society and the Liberated Africans of Sierra Leone; Maeve Ryan 3. Debating Slavery and Empire: the United States, Britain and the World's Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840; Maurice Bric 4. The Political as Personal: Transatlantic Abolitionism c. 1833-1867; Simon Morgan 5. Autocratic Abolitionists: Tsarist Russian Anti-Slavery Campaigns; Megan Dean 6. Abolition and Antislavery in the Ottoman Empire: A Case to Answer?; Ehud Toledano 7. Antislavery in Spain and its Colonies, 1808-1886; Christopher Schmidt-Nowara 8. The anti-slave trade campaign in Europe, 1888-90; William Mulligan 9. The invasion of America by an Englishman: E.D. Morel and the Anglo-American Intervention in the Congo; Charles Laderman 10. Slave Trade, Slavery and Abolitionism: The Unfinished Debate in France; Françoise Vergès 11. Transformations In The Law Concerning Slavery; Legacies Of The 19th Century Anti-Slavery Movement; Andrea Nicholson Bibliography